Our Trading Managers are all about inspiring excellence in their teams and their stores. Together with your Store Manager you will inspire and support all colleagues to create a winning team, helping us to become one of the nation’s top choices for shopping, every day.

You will be responsible for leading the development of our colleagues to motivate them to deliver a great and personalised service to all our customers. You will be a brand ambassador, who is positive and champions change, embracing new ways of working, serving our customers and committed to developing the team to be the best they can be.

You will be a role model for diversity and inclusion, encouraging all colleagues to be themselves at work, be a champion of our values, never missing an opportunity to recognise great performance and cheer on progress.

You’ll have retail management experience and clear leadership ability, with great commercial awareness. You’ll be able to comfortably use technology as part of your role, and use your strong prioritisation and planning skills to deliver targets and meet customer and colleague needs. You’ll need to be an inspirational and engaging communicator, able to deliver feedback, have challenging conversations, and manage performance fairly and consistently.

As part of the Sainsbury’s group, the career possibilities here are unparalleled, meaning that we can help you to drive your development in line with your own aspirations.

What’s in it for you?

Salary will be dependent upon your experience as well as the store size, complexity and location.

• Holiday entitlements starting at 22 days per year (increasing with service)
  
• Share save scheme
  
• Annual discretionary bonus
  
• Colleague discount in Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
  
• Company pension scheme
  
  

We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. While we can’t always accommodate every flexible working request, we do support part-time and job share roles so are happy to be asked how we can work around your availability.

So, if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not apply and see how it goes?

Here at Sainsbury’s Argos we’re a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome at Sainsbury’s Argos. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page – https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/better-for-everyone/diversity-and-inclusion